Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image